Medium people, be advised since there’s no obvious method to join us here at Everything Shortform, here’s the new update on everything you need to sign up fast, so don’t be alarmed when we grow this pub faster than sup Drake sells albums. Reply to this story with ‘Make me…

We were such idiots. When the Visitors came, we thought we could communicate with them as equals mathematically. We would use Pi as a numerically universal way of showing that we too were intelligent. Our limited dimensional awareness was demonstrated very quickly when they puzzled over our use of the…

You help everyone by reporting Medium stories that may have used AI. Have a gut feeling you’re seeing more Medium stories created with ChatGPT? Me, too. Those stories have become a plague on the platform, and they violate a Medium policy that clearly requires you to disclose AI use. Content…

Spring begins on Monday, and you may have noticed something missing this winter: The expected Covid surge didn’t happen. Weekly cases and…

These buildings are more than four stories in height, of course, it’s just that the fourth floor isn’t designated with the numeral four…

The end, whenever it came, was not at all dramatic. Through years of dread, things changed for the humans. Altered weather patterns meant yields were affected, but oil drying up fewer means to transport those yields remained, so they stayed local. It happened so gradually that city folk moved to…

There’s a logic to it. We have this gigantic interior, we have tons of cars, so of course our cities are laid out so that everything is…

A poem of learned optimism. Are you thinking about thinking? I’m undergoing a change. Yes. It’s a change you can’t understand, but every one of you knows it through and through. Hold on the line, this change may take several moments to actuate. The process is flawed. …